While his increasingly less successful documentaries are largely just leftwing fantasies presented in documentary style, progressive Michael Moore is occasionally good for a sentence or two of cold, hard truth. During the election, Moore crushed his fellow liberals’ souls by prophesying correctly that they’d better get used to saying “President Trump.” Moore followed up Trump’s humiliating upset victory over Hillary Clinton by pushing back (at least partly) against the left’s ugly claim that Trump won because of racism.
This week, following another two electoral failures for the Democrats — particularly the special election in Georgia that saw “Trump Slayer” Jon Ossoff slain despite $30 million(!) being thrown at the campaign — Moore had some harsh words for the Democratic Party.
“If u think the party who’s won the vote in 6 [of] last 7 Prez votes but holds ZERO power &is now 0-4 in 2017 votes is going to win next year get a friggin’ clue,” Moore wrote in a series of tweets. “The DNC&DCCC has NO idea how 2 win cause they have no message, no plan, no leaders, won’t fight &hate the resistance.”
“I say this to my 7.5 million ppl on social media & the millions who watch my movies & read my books: Are we going 2 sit by &let this happen?” he added.
Moore is certainly not alone in his frustration with the Democratic leadership, or his calls for it to embrace the “resistance” more (i.e., become even more radical). Many on the left have pointed out that the old guard, including Nancy Pelosi, who was used by the Republicans in Georgia to get out the vote for the ultimately victorious Karen Handel, appear to be clueless about how to compete in the Era of Trump and are proving to be political liabilities rather than assets.
The Democrats also lost this week’s special election in South Carolina, a reliably red state but an election that the Democrats, as in Georgia, hoped they might be able to swipe from Republicans and declare a “referendum on Trump.” Alas, both efforts failed, to the outrage and dismay of the political left.
H/T The Hill